Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle @ Haines Gallery

Haines Gallery proudly presents For Olle, an exhibition of new works by Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956, Cheshire, UK; lives and works in Dumfriesshire, Scotland). Marking our 12th solo exhibition with the celebrated artist, For Olle is dedicated to Goldsworthy’s longtime friend and collaborator, Olle Lundberg, whose recent passing informs the exhibition. Bringing together a suite of related photographic works and a clay sculpture created for this presentation, the show offers an intimate reflection on materiality and memory, loss and renewal.

Goldsworthy has built an unparalleled reputation for his sculptures, installations, photographs, and films that explore our relationship to the natural world. His ephemeral works, a fundamental part of his practice since the late 1970s, are created outdoors using the materials and conditions of the site, such as earth, rocks, flowers, and leaves; these works often last only a short time before they are altered or erased by natural processes. Made almost daily, their beauty and meaning are bound up with the forces that they embody: labor, temporality, impermanence, and cycles of growth, decay, and regeneration.

At the heart of the exhibition are three photographic diptychs from Goldsworthy’s series Fallen Elm (2009–present), documenting ephemeral works made in relation to a single, fallen elm tree near the artist’s home in Scotland. On view for the first time, the Fallen Elm works in For Olle were made in November 2025, in the days following the loss of San Francisco architect Olle Lundberg. Each pair of images features delicate yellowed elm leaves and grass stalks that Goldsworthy has arranged along the trunk of the fallen elm in various constellations: a line, screen, or starburst.